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Popular science is an interpretation or presentation of science intended for a general audience. Works of popular science may take many forms, including books, film and television documentaries, magaz
Title page of Mary Somerville's On the Connexion of the Physical Sciences (1834), an early popular-science book
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On the Connexion of the Physical Sciences, by Mary Somerville, is one of the best-selling science books of the 19th century. The book went through many editions and was translated into several Europea
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…there was growing demand for science titles. Mary Somerville became an early and highly successful science writer of the nineteenth century. Her On the Connexion of the Physical Sciences (1834), intended for the mass audience, sold quite well. Arguably one of the first books in modern popular science, it contained few diagrams and very…
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